This week I’ve been working on a short film. I took the raw video during the summer whilst capturing footage of crows on a ploughed field. Whilst playing the videos back I discovered that I had captured a crow dropping and then re-catching something (probably a stone).
I dragged the video into Premiere Pro, cropped it, added loads of effects before stripping nearly all of them out again, other than a boarder and a clock. I added a sound track (as the original was all noise), I downloaded a royalty free sound clip of a heart-beat, altered the speed of the beating to match the action, and changed the video speed to add tension.
The image fits in perfectly with some ideas I’ve been working with around Proust and his theory on the infirm focusing in on issues of loss. How Levi-Strauss considered binary opposites, with one end of the spectrum being marked, and the other unmarked, where the unmarked is viewed less positively. Lastly the persistence of memories, and how they linger like a delayed racing heart-beat that takes time to return to normal.
Link to You Tube video “Persistence of loss” (2016) JL
